1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,360 ETHEL: Is she pretty, Reg? CHRISTIE: Hard to say from this angle. 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:09,560 Well, you'll keep your bloody hands to yourself. 3 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:11,480 We're not long married, Mr Christie. 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,680 We could do with some privacy. 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,560 I'm not having any more. 6 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,360 If you get rid of it, you'll have rid of me. 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:23,080 I have helped couples in similar situations. 8 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,280 He's trained as a doctor, Tim. I trust him. 9 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,160 You've just got to tell Mr Christie everything's all right. 10 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,480 CHRISTIE: Bad news, I'm afraid. 11 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,800 What did you do to her? 12 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,440 They'll think you killed her. You could hang for this. 13 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,320 CHRISTIE: If anyone asks you, Just say Beryl's gone away. 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,920 POLICEMAN: They found the bodies. Your wife and your daughter. 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,440 No, no, no... 16 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,160 To make this easy on yoursell, I suggest you make your confession now. 17 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,120 I never done it, Mum. Christie done it. 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,600 Christie's the one saying you done it. 19 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,280 FOOTSTEPS PLODDING 20 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,360 MUSIC IN BACKGROUND 21 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:17,080 22 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,440 23 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:28,440 the trees don't have to know 24 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,840 25 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,960 26 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,040 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:50,440 the trees don't need to know 28 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,760 29 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,640 30 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,760 31 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,800 32 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,720 33 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,360 -WALLPAPER RUSTLES 34 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,280 35 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,720 36 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,800 37 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,200 -PAPER TEARING 38 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,840 MUSIC BECOMES MUFFLED 39 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,880 CLOCK TICKING 40 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,120 41 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,760 42 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,680 FLIES BUZZING 43 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,160 WIRELESS IN BACKGROUND 44 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,280 PIPE ORGAN MUSIC ON WIRELESS 45 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,000 BIG BEN CHIMING 46 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:42,680 MAN: 7he prosecution calls witness John Reginald Halliday Christie. 47 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:47,560 I do solemnly declare that the evidence I shall give 48 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,600 shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 49 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,560 So help me God. 50 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,280 On the 8th of November last year, 51 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,240 you said in your statement 1 EY YOI YT 52 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,080 being woken by something in the night. 53 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,160 V8 54 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,720 Ah, we were in bed - both in bed, my wife and I - 55 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,160 and erm...we were startled by a very loud thud. 56 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,280 Like something being dragged across the floor. 57 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:31,360 And is it true or is it not true that the next time you saw Timothy Evans 58 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,080 he told you that Mrs Evans had gone to Bristol with the baby? 59 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,160 Yes, that's true. 60 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,240 What kind of character would you say the defendant was? 61 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,480 At first he seemed decent enough. 62 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,760 What changed your opinion? 63 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,120 The drinking. The rows. 64 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,760 It was so bad once that I had to call the police out. 65 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:03,800 Another time he almost pushed Mrs Evans out the window. 66 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,080 Your withess. 67 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,560 -Mr Christie. -Mm. 68 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:23,800 Did you know that Mrs Evans was pregnant in November of last year? 69 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,040 SOFTLY Mm. My wife told me. 70 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,800 I'm sorry, could you speak up? 71 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:31,960 My wife told me. 72 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,120 I'd like to suggest to you that you attempted to perform 73 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,120 an illegal abortion on Mrs Evans. 74 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:43,120 And in the process thereof, A R S A N 75 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,280 In fact, I must suggest to you that not only are you responsible 76 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,800 for the death of Mrs Evans, but also for her little girl. 77 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,840 That on the Tuesday evening, with Timothy Evans's help, 78 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,880 you carried the dead body of Mrs Evans down to Mr Kitchener's flat. 79 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:02,760 No, no. That's absolutely ridiculous. 80 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:09,600 At the time, the fibrositis in my back was so bad I could scarcely bend. 81 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:12,240 I had to crawl out of bed... 82 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,760 ..and if I wanted to pick something up off the floor... 83 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,840 .. had to get down on my hands and knees. 84 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,960 It's physically impossible. 85 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:28,600 In fact, I am still under a great deal of treatment for the pain. 86 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,120 Would you like a seat, Mr Christie? 87 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:37,520 Oh, yes, please, Your Honour. 88 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,640 You are, are you not, a man of good character? 89 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,280 Well, I've...had some trouble. 90 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,200 Would that be the conviction for the malicious wounding of a young woman? 91 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,800 A crime for which you were sentenced to six months imprisonment? 92 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,480 V8 93 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,360 But it was an act of self-defence. 94 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,160 No further questions, Your Honour. 95 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,080 Who was she, Reg? 96 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,360 I didn't want to worry you, Ethel. 97 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,000 I was renting a room from her for three and tuppence. 98 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,840 Not a modest sum, 99 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,280 which I felt should include hot water and a mattress. 100 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,920 She disagreed with me and came at me...with a cricket bat. 101 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,200 They should have taken her away there and then, but... 102 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:02,280 she told them it was all me. 103 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,280 I'm just glad you weren't there R A 104 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:10,360 I've withessed it now, haven't I? 105 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,160 Along with every Tom, Dick and Harry in that courtroom. 106 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,040 Oh, Ethel. 107 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,440 I've been through enough today. I need you by my side. 108 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:31,080 I can't be more than ten paces from a WC. 109 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,360 Never mind my fibrositis. 110 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,480 It's most inconvenient. 111 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:40,080 It's incapacitating, that's what it is. 112 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,760 I can imagine. 113 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:43,120 I should be at home in bed, 114 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,960 not facing the Spanish Inquisition in a crowded courtroom. 115 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,720 I can give you more pills, strengthen the dose. 116 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,600 I don't need more tablets. I need a doctor's note. 117 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:01,040 I can't be expected to stand there in my condition. 118 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,800 I'm unfit to testify, Doctor Odess. That's the long and the short of it. 119 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,560 Mr Christie, for me to sanction your absence from court 120 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,400 you would really need to be gravely ill. 121 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,680 At death's door, so to speak. 122 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,920 What is it, Ethel? 123 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:24,640 How do we know it weren't the builders? 124 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:26,720 The builders? 125 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,000 We both know it wasn't the builders, don't we? 126 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:33,960 How do we know? 127 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,240 Well, the noise. 128 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:42,120 The thud that woke us up. It was on a Tuesday, wasn't it? 129 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:44,200 About erm... 130 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:49,200 ..midnight. He must have been moving her across the boards. 131 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,960 The weight of her. Must have done it when he came in from work. 132 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,800 She was fine when I left her. She said erm... 133 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,080 ..that she didn't want to go through with it. 134 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:06,480 By the time I packed my bag, she was fast asleep from the pill. 135 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,640 -You should never have been up there. -Aye. Don't I know it. 136 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,280 -Telling her you're a doctor. -Just trying to help, Ethel. 137 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,920 Showing her those medical books, like you know about it. 138 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,360 That's enough. 139 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,120 I'm a bag of nerves, Ethel. 140 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:36,320 Let's not mention helping Beryl with her...her problem. 141 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,040 Or we'll be dragged into this good and proper. 142 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,840 Before you know it, they'll be saying I killed her. 143 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,440 Honestly, I don't think I'll sleep a wink tonight. Not a wink. 144 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,800 I do solemnly declare that the evidence I shall give 145 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,760 shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 146 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:04,840 So help me God. 147 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:09,520 MAN: Mrs Ethel Christie? 148 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:11,840 V8 149 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,080 You are the wife of the last withess. 150 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,880 Do you remember one night in November being wakened by a bump? 151 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Yes, I do. 152 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:30,040 Did you hear anything unusual after the noise which woke you up? 153 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:39,960 Well, afterwards... I heard a noise as if erm... 154 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,720 ..furniture was being moved about. 155 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:49,760 Did you ever go into the Evans' flat after the bump in the night? 156 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,360 No. I don't think so. 157 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,960 So far as you know, did Mr Christie ever go into the flat after that night? 158 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,720 N T R G 159 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:05,280 Thank you, Mrs Christie. 160 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,440 Your name is Timothy John Evans? 161 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:18,280 NI 162 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,360 How old are you? 163 00:13:25,280 --> 00:13:28,840 Is it true you confessed to the murder of your wife and child? 164 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,440 I have confessed it, sir, but...it is not true. 165 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,840 So you did not put your wife's body down a manhole? 166 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,160 No, sir. 167 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,280 Why did you say you did? 168 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,640 Well, that's what Mr Christie told me he was gonna do with her. 169 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,720 Why did you suddenly go to the police? 170 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,600 Because I was getting worried about my daughter, Geraldine. 171 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:08,560 So, you confessed to murder because you were worried about your daughter. 172 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:17,680 When I found out my daughter...was dead, I had nothing else to live for. 173 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,200 And wasn't it also a lie 174 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,600 that you helped Mr Christie carry your wife's body downstairs... 175 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,680 ..when we know he was physically incapable of doing that? 176 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,880 Or even carrying the child? 177 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,320 I heard what he said. 178 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,560 But I still say I helped him carry my wife's body. 179 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,920 I did it all on the advice of Mr Christie. 180 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,320 And this is the same Mr Christie 181 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,000 you allege performed an illegal abortion on your wife? 182 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:56,560 And yet we know she was killed by strangling, not by abortion. 183 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,680 Can you suggest why Mr Christie should have strangled your wife? 184 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,240 Well... Well... 185 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,080 He was home all day. 186 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:21,680 He was home all day. That is a circumstance. 187 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:24,360 It is not a reason. 188 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,360 Again, can you suggest why he strangled your wife? 189 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,440 No. I can't. 190 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,320 Then can you suggest why he should have strangled your daughter two days later? 191 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,200 The prosecution recalls John Reginald Halliday Christie. 192 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,360 It appears, from what we have heard today, 193 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,320 that Mr Timothy Evans' sole line of defence rests on attacking you, 194 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,360 a perfectly innocent man. 195 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,520 -Er... CLEARS THROAT -He alleges that you killed Mrs Evans 196 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,840 while performing an abortion, 197 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,840 whereas no evidence of any abortion exists. 198 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,000 Mr Humphreys is making the assumption that his witness is innocent 199 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:22,640 and the defendant is not. 200 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,800 You cannot describe Mr Christie as a perfectly innocent man. 201 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,480 What were you doing in the First World War, Mr Christie? 202 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:36,480 I was in erm... Duke of Wellington's regiment 203 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,000 and...Notts and Derby. 204 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,720 I was gassed twice. 205 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,640 I was blinded for three months. 206 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,720 Er, I never spoke for three-and-a-half years. 207 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:57,000 Blinded? And you could not speak for three years? 208 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,080 Three-and-a-half years. 209 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,520 The last time you were in trouble with the police for any offence 210 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,800 was in...1938? 211 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,760 andg -{u ¥ -Yes. 212 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,120 12 years ago. 213 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,160 And in this last war, despite your disabilities, 214 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,760 you served with the reserve police for several years. 215 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,120 -Is that right? -Yes, I was commended on two occasions. 216 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,960 So, you are an injured war veteran and a commended officer of the law? 217 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,160 The man who accuses you of murder and abortion 218 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:37,200 and swearing his life away, is a self-confessed liar. 219 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:39,560 Who, on a previous occasion, 220 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,280 attempted to throw his own wife out of the window. 221 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,600 V8 222 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,600 Timothy Evans... 223 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,560 ..the jury find you guilty 224 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,640 of the murder of your daughter, Geraldine Evans. 225 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,560 You will be taken from here to a place of execution. 226 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,360 And there you shall hang by the neck until you are dead. 227 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,360 -It wasn't me... -Murderer! 228 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,440 Murderer! 229 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,080 Don't you dare call him that. He's a good man. 230 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,200 STIFLED SOBBING 231 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:24,640 -Egg, Mrs Christie? -Thanks. 232 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,560 He'll have the shock of his life when he opens the door. 233 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,560 He'll be bowled over. 234 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,480 Don't want to be any trouble. We can stay at a bed and breakfast. 235 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,280 Don't be daft. It's nice to see you. 236 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:50,440 JANICE: Aye, it's no trouble. 237 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,680 It's been ever so hard, hasn't it, Reg? 238 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,360 We treated that lad like a son. 239 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,000 Lent him money, tried to teach him to read and write 240 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,560 and this is the thanks I get - accusations of the foulest nature. 241 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,920 You would never have known it to look at him. 242 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,560 He seemed like the gentle type. 243 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,200 NIRRT R R IR IS 244 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,600 Living with him, you saw a different side. 245 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:25,400 Rows and...drinking. And fights. 246 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,240 It must be hard still living there. 247 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,480 We want to move, but you know what the council's like. 248 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,360 Snails would get more done. 249 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,560 You want to watch that, Reg. Janice works for the council now. 250 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,960 Oh, do you, love? That's nice. 251 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,720 Harry, you wouldn't believe the state of the place now. 252 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,880 The way the street is, it's filthy. 253 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:05,480 Isn't it, Reg? And all them immigrants. 254 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,920 Do you er...ever think about coming back here? 255 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,720 For good, I mean. 256 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,640 JANICE: It doesn't look like much, but they'll be up within the year. 257 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,560 -Plumbed bathrooms, central heating. -Central heating, Reg. 258 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,200 Sky-high bills, no doubt. 259 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,440 Lovely views. 260 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,760 CHRISTIE: We'd never get one. JANICE: Never say never. 261 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,920 -Janice can pull a string or two. -Can you? 262 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,920 I'll have a word with my friend in housing. 263 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,760 -He'll get you on the list. -We don't want to be any trouble. 264 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,960 No, it's no trouble. 265 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,880 What do you think, Reg? 266 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,960 I think...we're getting carried away. 267 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,720 FOOTSTEPS 268 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,680 Hello. Beresford Brown. 269 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,320 Can I help you? 270 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,360 We've moved in upstairs. 271 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,040 Moved in? 272 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:35,480 Mr Christie. I'll be up later to go over some rules. 273 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,560 What rules would that be? 274 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,240 -House rules. -You work for the landlord? 275 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,560 No, no, no. 276 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:46,760 But I happen to be the er... longest-sitting tenant. 277 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,840 They're your rules, then, not mine. 278 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:52,360 Evening. 279 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,120 He's a nice enough chap. 280 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:05,520 -He were laughing at you. -What are you talking about? 281 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,960 SCOFFS Reg's house rules. 282 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,040 CHUCKLES 283 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,160 Why have we come back, eh? 284 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,520 We could have had a nice new house. But it's not what you wanted, is it? 285 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,200 AlLT want is a bit of peace and quiet, love. 286 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,760 You're invisible down here. No prying eyes. 287 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,320 Creeping out at night. 288 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,080 Well, I won't keep your dirty secrets a day longer, do you hear me? 289 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,360 You need to lie down, Ethel. 290 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,560 Lie down? I sent an innocent man to his death cos of you! 291 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,480 That baby was fine when I went up to check on her! 292 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,000 Tim were out at work. It couldn't have been him. 293 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,840 It should have been you at the end of that rope! You! 294 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,680 I'm taking you to see Dr Odess. 295 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,680 You'll do no such thing. 296 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,000 You... You're not to blame, love. 297 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,960 It's the strain. It's...taken its toll. 298 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,480 Odess will know what to do. 299 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,240 I won't see him. 300 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,760 We'll have a home visit. Maybe he'll come here. 301 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,120 Perhaps he'll er... bring the head doctor. 302 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,960 A second opinion. 303 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,920 MUFFLED SOBBING 304 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,560 SNIFFLING 305 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,400 -Ethel? -I've been attacked. 306 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,440 It were her upstairs. The darkie. 307 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,840 She hit me! And she accused me of blocking her in the hall. 308 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:50,080 Are you gonna stand for that? 309 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,680 Your own wife being physically assaulted in her own home? 310 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,760 By a foreigner? 311 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,000 If that's not the thin end of the wedge, I don't know what is! 312 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,200 VI S HIVRTI0 63 313 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,520 MUFFLED LAUGHTER 314 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,320 DISTANT BABY CRYING 315 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,960 BERESFORD: are very much sociable 316 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,960 and they take you there 317 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:52,840 like a millionaire! 318 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,520 319 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,080 LAUGHS 320 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,840 LAUGHTER AND SINGING 321 00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:04,920 SNIFFLING 322 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,160 Did you talk to him? 323 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,240 Yes, I did, love. There'll be no more trouble. 324 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,360 Right. 325 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000 FAINT MUSIC 326 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,680 327 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,560 328 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:36,240 the trees don't have to know 329 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,320 330 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:45,560 331 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,520 332 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:57,200 the trees don't need to know 333 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,600 SHE GASPS 334 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,560 MUFFLED SCREAMING 335 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 FEET THUD 336 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,520 BODY THUDS 337 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,520 DOOR OPENS 338 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,000 Mr Christie? 339 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,120 I was just coming around to see Ethel. 340 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,000 She's still in Halifax, I'm afraid. She's had to extend her stay. 341 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,600 -Why's that, then? -Her brother took a turn for the worse. 342 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,760 We might have to move back permanently. 343 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,120 That'd be a shame. 344 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,440 Well, that's families for you. 345 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:33,920 You can't put a price. 346 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,840 Well, if she's not back by Christmas, you'll have to come to us. 347 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,000 Thank you very much. 348 00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,000 I suffered the first one at the Evans' trial. 349 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,120 -I was the star witness, you know. -Dr Odess told me. 350 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:58,480 My concern is what happens during these lapses, 351 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,080 what I might do, that I might...injure myself... 352 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,280 ..or, God forbid, somebody else. 353 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,880 The other day, Mrs Christie, she found me in the middle of the kitchen floor. 354 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,000 -No idea how I got there. -1 think you should come in. 355 00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:15,720 Stay for a while. 356 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,400 That way we can get a proper look at you. 357 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:20,720 Oh, no. No, no, no. 358 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,920 I don't think I could leave my wife. She's terrified of the neighbours. 359 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,880 -Why's that? -They're coloureds, you see. 360 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,200 I don't want to take up much more of your time. 361 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,800 I just wanted to...put you in the picture, as it were. 362 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,120 CHRISTIE: It's one bedroom, but because it's on the ground floor 363 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:09,800 you've got the garden, see? 364 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,280 -Is it nice? -Oh, it's very nice. 365 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,240 A decent size, too. 366 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,320 Some of these so-called gardens... 367 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,560 they're like somewhere you'd exercise a prisoner. 368 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,600 You're funny. 369 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,160 -All right, Rina. -Alex, Mr Christie. 370 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,240 -How do you do? -Alex. 371 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,160 -GENTLE KNOCKING SIS G < 372 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:03,240 Be my guest. 373 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,160 They're my wife's. 374 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,480 Whatever takes your fancy. 375 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,560 Thank you. 376 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:18,920 Won't she mind? 377 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,960 Oh, no. She's got more clothes than she knows what to do with. 378 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,040 Take that one, Rina. And that one. 379 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,880 I did say just the one item. 380 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,640 It's not a free-for-all, I'm afraid. 381 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,680 Look, I... I'm sorry, I've changed my mind. 382 00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,240 I wasn't expecting a second occupant. 383 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,120 You'll have to find accommodation elsewhere, I'm afraid. 384 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,200 -You what? -Mm. 385 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,680 What are you playing at, wasting our time? 386 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,680 You said we had the run of the place. 387 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,200 Rina. 388 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,600 -DOOR OPENS -Oh, no, no, no, no. 389 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,040 You can take the blouses. 390 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,120 Don't worry. 391 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:22,040 You come back later, you can have a coat or two if you like. 392 00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,320 Just don't bring him, though. 393 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,760 Thanks, Mr Christie. 394 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,800 FAINT MUSIC 395 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,880 396 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,360 397 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:15,480 from me to you 398 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:22,000 be filled with love 399 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,000 400 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,080 MUSIC FADES 401 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,760 KEY TURNING IN LOCK 402 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,080 I X It P R 403 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,960 -DOOR SQUEAKS -Have to put a bit of oil on that. 404 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,960 Squeaky. 405 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,360 You go on through. 406 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,000 It's a perfectly safe procedure, love. 407 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,800 Don't you worry. 408 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,800 There you are, love. 409 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,280 Right, let me get your coat. 410 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,560 That's nice. 411 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,760 There we are. 412 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,280 You sit down. 413 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,400 There we are. 414 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,160 LB 415 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,480 I know, I know, love. 416 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,440 HE GROANS 417 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,240 Let's take those shoes. 418 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:25,520 One...two. 419 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,640 Let's just...pop those there. 420 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,640 HE GROANS 421 00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:37,200 EXHALES 422 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,280 Yeah, don't you worry. 423 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,280 I've done this before. 424 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,480 Be back in a tick. 425 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,120 DOOR CLOSES 426 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,800 Where did you go? 427 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,280 Top up? 428 00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,840 -SHE GIGGLES -There you are. 429 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,480 Here. 430 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,600 GAS HISSING 431 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,560 ECHOING Now...bottoms up. 432 00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,440 There you are. 433 00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,240 SHE GASPS 434 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,320 MUFFLED SCREAMING 435 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,720 SHRIEKING 436 00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,480 GASPING SLOWS DOWN 437 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,200 GURGLING 438 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,560 GRUNTS 439 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,680 THUDDING 440 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,400 HE GRUNTS 441 00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,840 URGENT KNOCKING 442 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,920 KNOCKING CONTINUES 443 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Morning, Reg. 444 00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,760 IRl Le 8 -Can I come in? 445 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,160 It's a bit of a state in here. 446 00:45:04,240 --> 00:45:05,720 I don't mind. 447 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:08,880 Ethel's away. 448 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,840 Housekeeping's not my strong suit. 449 00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,440 Moving out, Reg? 450 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,000 Fingers crossed. 451 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,760 The council have found us a flat in Willesden. 452 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,760 Here, Judy. It's a two-bed. 453 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,480 Have a seat. 454 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,800 -Cup of tea? -No. 455 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:46,880 There's something you need to know. 456 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,200 There's been three burglaries on this street in the past month. 457 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:51,800 That's well above average. 458 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,880 You want me to keep my eyes open? 459 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:57,520 -If you don't mind? -You leave it to me. 460 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,800 Well, how long's Ethel gone for? 461 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,440 A fortnight or so. 462 00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,520 You're not wrong, Reg. 463 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:11,600 Wrong? 464 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,000 About your housekeeping. 465 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,400 SNIFFS What is that stink? 466 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,400 It's the neighbours. 467 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,120 They're darkies. 468 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,160 All that foreign food. Herbs and spices. 469 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,000 I don't know why they can't eat English. 470 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:42,960 -CHUCKLES -Anyway, I'll see myself out. 471 00:46:51,240 --> 00:46:53,000 DOOR OPENS 472 00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,240 DOOR CLOSES 473 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:33,920 SIGHS 474 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:36,360 HE GRUNTS 475 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,520 BIRDSONG 476 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,080 BELL TOLLING IN DISTANCE 477 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,480 CHATTER 478 00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,880 MUFFLED CHATTER 479 00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,120 HE EXHALES 480 00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:32,560 You all right, sir? 481 00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:35,920 V8 482 00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,920 Take off your hat. 483 00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:48,320 I think you need to come with me down to the station, Mr Christie. 484 00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,040 We've got Mrs Christie L CR Xl el 485 00:51:56,120 --> 00:52:00,920 Hectorina MaclLennan, Rita Nelson and Kathleen Maloney in the kitchen. 486 00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:07,280 Muriel Eady and Ruth Fuerst in the back garden. 487 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,440 We found this. 488 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:15,760 Four different types of pubic hair, 489 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,400 none of which match any of the bodies found. 490 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:22,840 Were there others, Mr Christie? 491 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,440 There is something... 492 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,520 ..something comes to mind, but I don't know what. 493 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,400 Is it about Beryl Evans? Tim Evans' wife? 494 00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,080 Could be that. 495 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:37,800 You do know I've not been well for a good time. 496 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:42,880 -You said that. -I've been suffering from fibrositis. 497 00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,680 Enteritis. 498 00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:48,880 Last year I had a nervous breakdown. 499 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,760 Dr Petit from St Charles Hospital IRV 500 00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,840 Did you kill Beryl Evans? 501 00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,120 I've an idea that I strangled Mrs Evans, yes. 502 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:10,880 What about the baby? 503 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:21,720 Let me assure you, Inspector, 504 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:27,040 that...I've absolutely no idea 505 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,640 what happened to the Evans's baby. 506 00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:35,200 I do not recollect seeing it on the Tuesday or any time afterwards. 507 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:50,560 KEYS JANGLE 508 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,720 CELL DOOR IS UNLOCKED 509 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,360 Good morning. 510 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:03,360 It's all there. They're saying you killed the baby. 511 00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,120 I don't believe I did, but... 512 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:15,480 .If I did, it would just confuse matters to say so... 513 00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:19,200 ..when they've already hanged a man. 514 00:54:20,480 --> 00:54:22,760 Even so, a jury will have you hung, drawn and quartered 515 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,280 before you can so much as set foot in that courtroom. 516 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:29,360 It's a question of cognisance and culpability. 517 00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:34,840 I have a preponderancy to blackouts, so say the finest medical minds. 518 00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,600 Without cognisance, there can be no culpability. 519 00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:44,880 You can't hang a man who's not in charge of his faculties. 520 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,560 Can I have my glasses back, please? 521 00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,360 DOOR IS LOCKED 522 00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,040 SHOUTING 523 00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:14,240 JUDGE: John Reginald Halliday Christie, 524 00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:18,800 the jury find you guilty of the murder of your wife, Ethel Christie. 525 00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:22,920 From here, you will be taken to a place of execution 526 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,840 and hanged by the neck until you are dead. 527 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,000 -MURMURING -May the Lord have mercy on your soul. 528 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,360 Tell them you killed Geraldine! 529 00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:33,960 Tell them my son was innocent! 530 00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,280 Is there anything else you want to tell me, Reginald? 531 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,800 What time is it? 532 00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:56,720 Almost nine. 533 00:55:58,400 --> 00:56:00,400 N e o T-W 534 00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,040 Do you want to confess now? 535 00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,320 Will it help me? 536 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,560 I'm sorry. 537 00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:31,120 For Ethel. 538 00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:35,240 And the others? 539 00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,200 It might help if you could say their names. 540 00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:46,240 Ruth. 541 00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:55,440 Muriel. 542 00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:01,960 L 543 00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:05,640 Kathleen. 544 00:57:08,720 --> 00:57:10,720 Hectorina. 545 00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,560 And Beryl. 546 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,240 DISTANT SHOUTING 547 00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,360 DISTANT BANGING 548 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,160 And the baby? 549 00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:31,440 Geraldine? 550 00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:32,880 SHOUTING GETS LOUDER 551 00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,120 BANGING ON CELL DOOR 552 00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:36,680 That was all. 553 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:39,120 AR IR VI oY 554 00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,200 CELL DOOR OPENS 555 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,200 ANGRY SHOUTING FROM OUTSIDE 556 00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:06,080 NERVOUS BREATHING